Books, articles and papers can all be found here and this page will probably expand to a number of pages.
for the moment some key books. Main Course texts are in RED

The tabulation on this page is a bit squiffy from being copied over from another wiki. I'd advise against amending it - if you have books that you want to recommend, attach a comment with an amazon link to the page discussion.

The Official SASP reccomended texts and other stuff [CDROM etc] (no need to buy them all!)

Author	Title (Date)	Publisher	Notes	What for?	Other bookstores are available
Keith Johnson	Physics for you (2006)	Nelson Thornes	It's hard to find a book that satisfactorily explains the physics at GCSE (or IGCSE) level but this is probably the best	Subject Knowledge (GCSE)	Amazon link
Jim Breithaupt	Physics, 2nd edition. (2003)	Palgrave Macmillan	Explanation, not that detailed but covers all the physics.	Subject Knowledge (A Level)	Amazon Link
Steve Adams & J Allday	Advanced Physics( 2000)	OUP	Has explanations, but mainly of post-16 physics.	Subject Knowledge (A Level)	Amazon Link
John Nunn	Virtual Physical Laboratory	NPL	Simulations, available from John Nunn at NPL, I'll try and get this for everyone.	Subject Knowledge	Link 1 and Link 2
David Sang	Teaching Secondary Physics (2000)	ASE/John Murray	Goes through the concepts needed at Key stage 3 and 4 and progression between them plus ideas about how to teach these.	Probably better for teaching from/with	Amazon Link
IOP	SPT 11-14	IOP	5 CDROM set may still be available, otherwise the materials can be downloaded from the Talk Physics site.	Both SK and Teaching approaches	SPT
Gatsby SEP	booklets in the series Innovations in practical work	SEP	Lots of good ideas for practical activities, sign up as an associate if you are not already signed up. We will use lots of these ideas in the sessions	Practical work	SEP

A couple of other recommendations from Neil.

Author	Title	Publisher	Notes	What for?	From
Ken Dobson	Collins Advanced Science - Physics	Collins	Good A-Level textbook with high quality, readable explanations that address the subject in some depth. Expensive newer editions but older editions will still give a good grounding in most of the areas of physics Amazon link is to an older edition for a couple of quid.	Subject knowledge (A level) Exercises	Amazon
Carl Sagan	Cosmos	Abacus/Random House	Beautiful book, one of the books that got me into science as a child. If you don't remember the TV series, you can often get it on DVD with the book. The old hardback is full of gorgeous illustrations (linked) Lots of great science told through the story of cosmic evolution - really accessible.	Enrichment, knowledge, depth, enjoyment.	Amazon
Philip Plait	Bad Astronomy	Wiley	Frequently very amusing, points out the many sins committed against astronomy by sci-fi movies and the like. You know Han Solo couldn't possibly have made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, right?	Enjoyment, teaching ideas.	Amazon

Some of James de Winter's Personal Favourites

Author	Title	Publisher	Notes	What for?	Other bookstores are available
Lewis Carroll Epstein	Thinking Physics	Insight Press	For me, one of the best 'good question to get students thinking' books covers across the range of levels and subjects, a real winner. One I would not be without.	Day to day and 5 mins left of lesson to fill emergencies	Amazon
Keith Gibbs	The Resourceful Physics Teacher	IOP	Seems out of print at the moment but worth tracking down if you can. Keith has a website School Physics with all kinds of free and pretty reasonable stuff. I have a copy of this that I'm happy to lend out - Neil.	Ideas, demos and other stuff	Amazon (only pricey SHcopies when I looked) Perhaps e-mail author and see if he has any copies for sale.
Cutnell and Johnson	Physics (On about 8th edition now but older ones are fine)	John Wiley & Sons	For me, the one teaching physics book I could not be without. Its a US one and there is plenty of content that goes above A level but it is so well written and has lots of really good 'real world' examples that it is constant source of good worked examples and idea for my teaching. There is a pretty heavy maths content but you are taken through the steps one at a time and so it doesn't feel that painful. Lots of questions at the end of each chapter and worked examples (and plenty of extra web based stuff).	Everything! Just make sure that you are clear what your specification covers so you don't get to deep (unless you want to)	Amazon
Richard Skelding and Mike Bethel	Physics, Jazz and Pop (Supported Learning in Physics Project)	Heinemann (1996) 978-0435688387	I know it's a few years old but this one is really good for Physics/Waves/Music Stuff. Part of a series of books on various physics applications - all worth checking out (even if the phones one may be a bit out of date)	Theory and practical ideas, lots of independent learning tasks	Out of print but there are a few cheapish copies on various Amazon marketplace sellers

Research Methods Books

Author	Title	Publisher	Notes	Other bookstores are available
Elaine Wison (Ed)	School-based Research: A Guide for Education Students	SAGE	Probably the most acessable introductory book for this kind of thing.	Amazon
Judith Bell	Doing your research project	OUP	A well regarded staring point for education students	Amazon
Martin Denscombe	The Good Research Guide	OUP	More detailed than the previous two. Probably more than is needed for SASP but good and acessable.	Amazon
Colin Robson	Real World Research	Wiley and Sons	More detailed but really good. For those who get 'in' to educational research.	Amazon

The triple science support program produces some useful guides.
The physics one looks like this

And you can get it HERE or [[f/080080.pdf|HERE]]